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From:Business Economics (Vol. 56, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAbstract This research investigates the effects of ride-sharing online platforms on the taxi and limousine industry. It also compares and contrasts labor market outcomes between conventional taxi drivers and Uber...
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From:Business Economics (Vol. 56, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedHarold James, Making a modern central bank: the Bank of England 1979-2003 Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2020 James has written a fascinating history of the Bank of England during a tumultuous period of...
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From:Business Economics (Vol. 56, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis issue includes material from the recently-completed (live!) NABE Annual Meeting, and we want to again thank the Peterson Foundation for its support. The first piece is Hal Varian's Adam Smith Award address. Varian...
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From:Business Economics (Vol. 56, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAbstract What does an economist do at Google? I get this question a lot so I thought this would be a good opportunity to answer it, using illustrations from pricing in ad auctions, the development of forecasting tools,...
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From:Business Economics (Vol. 56, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Anecdotes abound suggesting that the use of predictive analytics boosts firm performance. However, large-scale representative data on this phenomenon have been lacking. Working with the Census Bureau, we...
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From:Business Economics (Vol. 56, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedCorrection to: Business Economics (2021) 56:59-66 https://doi.org/10.1057/s11369-021-00215-6 Due to a typesetting mistake, the article was published with an error in one of the author names: The second author has...
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From:Business Economics (Vol. 56, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedCorrection to: Business Economics https://doi.Org/10.1057/s11369-021-00221-8 The article Charles Camic: Veblen, The Making of an Economist Who Unmade Economics, written by Charles Steindel, has been updated. The...
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From:Business Economics (Vol. 56, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedViral V. Acharya: Quest for restoring financial stability in India When the editor contacted me last fall to review a book by a former central banker of India, I was very intrigued as to what I would find in the book....
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From:Business Economics (Vol. 56, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWilliam Quinn and John D. Turner: Boom and bust: a global history of financial bubbles Cambridge University Press, 2020 This concise, well-written, and informative book presents a unique and novel view of financial...
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From:Business Economics (Vol. 56, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Our study presents a framework to estimate economic costs of the COVID-19 pandemic for the U.S. economy. We characterize whether the pandemic-related damages are short-lived or long-lasting. The potential...
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From:Business Economics (Vol. 56, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedStephanie Kelton: The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy Hachette, 2020 The quip "if you buy the premise, you buy the bit," attributed to Johnny Carson, is the idea is that if...
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From:Business Economics (Vol. 56, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAbstract With shelter comprising a one-third weight in the Consumer Price Index, an accurate measure of rent change is essential for determining factors affecting inflation measurement, economic policy, and consumer...
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From:Business Economics (Vol. 56, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedCharles Camic: Veblen, The Making of an Economist Who Unmade Economics Harvard University Press Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) may by now be only dimly remembered by most economists. Ones of my vintage might recall the...